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Quotes About Books III
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, – so much help By so much reading. it is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth – ‘T is then we get the right good [...]
Quotes About Books II
Monday, July 28th, 2008A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large, –where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the [...]
Quotes About Books I
Sunday, July 27th, 2008People die, but books never die. Beware of the man of one book. ~ Thomas Aquinas There is no friend as loyal as a book. ~ Ernest Hemingway Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who [...]
Quotes About Reading III
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill “by the numbers,” recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word. ~ Jacquelyn Gross It is [...]
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